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Paul M
26 Sep 2023 at 12:33
Sadly shut down within the last year so Tom, its owner, could retire. Probably the best record shop I have ever known. A real treasure trove that worked on the principal that turnover was king so many many bargains to be had. I really miss it. Another shop is now on the site, Dash the Henge, but not the same.
Tim Harper
21 Apr 2025 at 11:52
Space reopened a couple of months after Rat Records closed in June 2022 as Dash The Henge Store, a different beast selling new and reissues alongside secondhand plus books and merch with regular live music events during the week and Saturdays at 3pm and 5pm https://dashthehengestore.com/
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Name: Tom Fisher
Comment: I started Rat Records 23 years ago, buying and selling albums and books on a street market in Oxford. I then graduated to Camden and Greenwich markets at the weekend, with the odd second-hand record fair.
In 1993 I got the first of a series of four Rat Records second-hand shops in Greenwich. In 1998 Rat Records relocated to Camberwell.
Since 1988 I reckon we've sold just over 1,350,000 second-hand records, stuck on 2,000,000+ price stickers, driven over 900,000 miles, worn out the suspension on over 15 vehicles and discovered the only copy of a collaboration between Mick Jagger and John Lennon. I also have two more children, a grandchild and a lot less hair than when I started. A far more exciting and mildly embellished version of this rise to glory is being serialised in my blog - Autobiography of a Record Dealer, slowly but surely.
The small number of record shops left in the UK are still providing a place to work for future and upcoming artists.
Once you could find Anthony Joseph looking at you from behind the counter at Rat Records.